[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS on savannah

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Andrew Walrond

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[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS on savannah

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Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:19:06 +0000

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On Monday 05 Jan 2004 10:31 am, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
> It isn't possible to do this consistently, because CVS commits are not
> atomic. It is always possible for a developer to check out an
> inconsistent repository.
>
So a cvs checkout from the master repository can result in an inconsistent
local copy? I didn't know that.
That problem is obviously double-compounded by checkins to the master during
rsync of mirror and checkouts from the mirror during rsync from master.
I hope nobody mirrors a mirror......
Andrew Walrond